"Fame" Towers 60 Percent Over Year-Ago Slot Results

“FAME” IMPROVES ON LAST WEEK’S 8-9 P.M. RESULT, GIVING NBC WEEK-TO-WEEK 18-49 GAINS FOR ALL FIVE OF ITS FIRST-RUN REALITY SHOWS

“LAW & ORDER” WINS THE 9 AND 10 P.M. HOURS

NBC WINS WEDNESDAY IN 18-49 AND TOTAL VIEWERS

BURBANK, Calif. -- June 26, 2003 -- NBC has won the Wednesday ratings race among adults 18-49 and overall total viewers with slot wins from two telecasts of “Law & Order” and impressive 8 p.m. ET results from “Fame.”

“Fame” leaped 60 percent above NBC’s time-period result in 18-49 on the same night last year and is now running 45 percent ahead of year-ago slot results summer-to-date.

Compared with last week’s 8-9 p.m. ET result, “Fame” was up 9 percent in 18-49, giving NBC week-to-week gains for all five of its first-run reality programs. On Monday, “For Love Or Money,” this summer’s #1 reality show in 18-49, built by 11 percent and “Meet My Folks” was up by 6 percent. On Tuesday, “Dog Eat Dog” was up week-to-week by 19 percent and “Last Comic Standing” grew by 3 percent.

“Law & Order” was #1 in 18-49 at both 9 p.m. ET (3.3/10 in 18-49, 10.0 million viewers overall) and 10 p.m. ET (4.3/13 in 18-49, 11.5 million viewers overall). “Law & Order” won its regular slot at 10 p.m. ET in all key demographics, households and total viewers.

In last night’s local-market late-night results, “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” (5.4 rating, 13 share in metered-market households) soundly beat CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” (3.4/8 in metered-market households) and ABC’s “Nightline” (3.0/7 in metered-market households) and “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (1.4/4 in metered-market households). “Tonight” has topped “Late Show” on 189 of 192 nights in the local markets during the 2002-03 broadcast year.

NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” (2.6/9 in metered-market households) doubled CBS’ “Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn” (1.3/5 in metered-market households) and the second half of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”